Solar eclipse · Wednesday 26 January 2028 · Faro, Portugal

Annular eclipse in Faro, 26 January 2028

The Moon, slightly too small to cover the Sun, will leave a ring of it for 7 min 02 s, from 16:51:45 to 16:58:47 (local time in Lisbon). At maximum, at 16:55:16, the Sun will stand 9° above the horizon, towards the west-south-west.

The path near you

Faro lies inside the path of annularity, 124 km from its nearest edge, towards the north-north-west. Beyond that line the ring no longer closes. The centre line, where the ring lasts longest, runs 49 km further towards the south-south-east.

The times, for Faro

Phase	Local time	UT	Sun's altitudealt.
First contact — the Moon touches the Sun	15:32:32	15:32:32	22°
Annularity begins	16:51:45	16:51:45	9°
Maximum	16:55:16	16:55:16	9°
Annularity ends	16:58:47	16:58:47	8°
Last contact — the Moon leaves the Sun	18:08:04	18:08:04	below the horizon

Duration of annularity7 min 02 s
Total duration2 h 35 min
Share of the Sun covered83%
Magnitude0.942
Sun's altitude at maximum9°

What you will see

Maximum as seen from Faro, drawn by Novilune.

That day the Moon is slightly too far from the Earth to cover the whole Sun: at maximum it leaves a bright ring. The sky darkens noticeably but never becomes night, and eye protection remains necessary from start to finish, ring included.

The annular phase lasts 7 min 02 s, from 16:51:45 to 16:58:47; the partial phase ends at 18:08:04.

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Where these figures come from

Times and geometry computed by Novilune for the point 37.0163° N, 7.9352° W (altitude 12 m), from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's DE441 ephemeris, with ΔT = 69.3 s. The uncertainty on ΔT (± 6 s) shifts all the times together by a few seconds at most; atmospheric refraction is not applied (it does not change the contact times appreciably at this altitude of the Sun).

Times are given in local time in Lisbon (UT +00:00).

In the app

Novilune draws this eclipse as it will be seen from Faro — the two discs at maximum, the Moon's path, the map of the path of totality — and does the same for every new moon from 2000 BC to AD 3000, for any place on Earth, offline.

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Also computed for this eclipse